Hey Gang! I got home at 12:40PM this afternoon having seen the early showing of The Last Jedi this morning. I've stayed away from TheRPF and all other Star Wars forums, TV commercials, etc., since Thursday night for fear of seeing spoilers. I flipped on the computer and came directly here when I got home. If anyone is just now hopping into this thread, and wondering how long it takes to read all 37 pages of it... it's... I literally can't do the math right now... 9 hours 35 minutes, give or take to catch up with everyone's opinions on the latest installment of our beloved franchise.
I'm too tired now, but here's my quick take on it...
As a lightsaber guy, I'm heartbroken at the mistreatment of the GRAFLEX lightsaber, from the beginning when Luke tosses it over the cliff to it being torn in half by Rey and Kylo Ren. I hope that Rey is able to reconstruct it in Episode IX since she recovered both halves of it and it seemed as though the crystal was still within it.
It irks me when George Lucas says 'laser swords' and even more so that Luke said it in this movie. I appreciate the the idea that it was said in spite to Rey, @
CT1138 , it makes it a less bitter pill to swallow.
I loved the opening space battle!
When I saw Leia Poppins (great phrase!) I was struggling with the lack of movement in her outfit but I remember thinking "Force Angel". I think that comes from the pose she had looking exactly like the angels we have at the top of our Christmas tree with their hands outstretched. Thinking of Carrie then in that manner overrode my "that's not how Leia's outfit would react in outerspace" thought when she started Force Pulling herself back into the ship and I got a little choked up.
Rey's parents sure got a lot more than beer money for selling her if they were able to blast off of Jakku in that spaceship we saw in The Force Awakens. I can't believe Unkar Plutt would have given more than 1/4 portion for her as a scrawny little kid!
Rey being seemingly uneffected by the weight of all those bolders at this stage of her development in terms of being a Force User really makes Luke look incredibly weak in the Force in The Empire Strikes Back and he was the son of the 'Chosen One' who was being trained by a Jedi Master.
Rey is a test tube baby made from Luke's long lost hand and that's why the GRAFLEX called out to her so strongly.
Porgs are going to be the next tribbles. Y'all saw what was going on in the Falcon, so don't deny it!
There's still something wrong with the new Chewie's eyes, too squinty I think.
I totally missed Luke not making marks in the salt and thought he'd cleaned himself up and constructed a new GRAFLEX lightsaber to confront Kylo Ren with assuming he lost the Green lightsaber in the destruction of Kylo's hut/the new Jedi Temple.
Yoda looked like CGI until he started walking towards Luke, and then he was clearly a puppet and I thought he looked vastly better at that point.
That should NOT have been the first time Yoda, or Obi-Wan appeared to Luke since Return Of The Jedi.
And how is it that Luke didn't have lesson #1 be: "Emperor level Dark Side users can fire lightning out of their finger tips and you can block it with your lightsaber!!!!" ?
Did anyone see Luke's Green lightsaber either in his hut or in Rey's drawer with the Jedi texts? Both scenes flashed by too quickly for me to pick up much of anything.
Rose likes Finn. Finn likes Rey. Rey likes Poe? Poe likes Holdo but she's 'One with the Force' now so that will never happen.
I'm still in shock that we lost the GRAFLEX lightsaber, and Luke Skywalker in one movie and have little hope of seeing Princess Leia in the next one.
All in all I thought it was O.K. I definitely don't yet have the "I have to race back into the theater and see it again!" feeling. I still haven't voted in this thread's poll. I have to get to bed and try and get some sleep. And here I thought it was difficult to fall asleep last night with all the anticipation I had building up to see the movie for the first time this morning! I sure hope tonight goes easier, but my mind is still spinning out questions and memories of the movie that weren't answered and were good and bad and conflicting in such disarray because my mind is so tired from spending all day reading that I just might lay there until 4:00AM before finally succumbing to exhaustion.
May the Force be with us all! I think we need it.